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Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

Phylicia Rashad: When you're free...

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is...

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Sophia Loren: Mistakes are part...

Sophia Loren: Mistakes are part...

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Source: In Webster's...

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Lauren Bacall: You know you...

Lauren Bacall: You know you...

'You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not...

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Lily Tomlin: Don't be afraid...

Lily Tomlin: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had...

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Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make...

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Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Love will make a way out of no way.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
-- Lynda Barry,...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

Gloria Vanderbilt: . . ....

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles,...

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Adrienne Rich: Pride is a...

Adrienne Rich: Pride is a...

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Source: Blood, Bread and Poetry,...

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Audre Lorde: I train myself...

Audre Lorde: I train myself...

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Source: The Cancer...

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Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater...

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Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: There is nowhere...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: There is nowhere...

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

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Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Alice Childress: Writers are encouraged...

Writers are encouraged to keep 'em laughing and complain with good humor in order to win allies. The joke is always on...

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Alice Childress: Child, when hard...

Alice Childress: Child, when hard...

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Source: Oldtimer in Wine in the...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

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Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

Sarah Josepha Hale: There is no...

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of...

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Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of...

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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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